Novel coronavirus in Canada: Here's a timeline of COVID-19 cases across the country

TORONTO --
Public health officials say 33 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus have been diagnosed in Canada so far, with 20 cases reported in Ontario, 12 in British Columbia and one in Quebec.

Here is a timeline of cases in this country.

March 3, 2020: Ontario announces two new cases -- one person who had travelled to Egypt and another who had travelled to Iran. British Columbia announces four new cases involving people with links to travel from Iran. Officials in B.C. are also asking travellers from China and Iran to isolate themselves for 14 days when they return home to Canada.

March 2, 2020: Ontario announces three new cases -- two women who had travelled to Egypt and a man who had travelled to Iran.

March 1, 2020: Ontario officials diagnose four new cases -- three in York Region and one in Toronto. All four patients had recently travelled abroad. One had travelled to Egypt with a man who was later diagnosed with the virus, while the rest had recently been in Iran.

Feb. 29, 2020: Ontario confirms three new cases, bringing the province’s total number of cases to 11. One case involved a 34-year-old woman with a travel history to Iran who presented herself to a hospital in Richmond Hill on Thursday, Feb. 27. Two other patients – a husband and wife -- presented themselves to Lakeridge Health Ajax and Pickering. The wife, who is 51, had recently travelled to Iran, but the husband, 69, had not.

British Columbia announced its eighth case of the virus in a woman in her 60s who was visiting the province from Iran. Officials described her case as “relatively mild.”

Feb. 28, 2020: Ontario reports its seventh and eighth cases. The seventh case involved a man in his 50s who arrived in Toronto on Tuesday, Feb. 25 and went to the emergency department of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre the next day. The eighth case involved a man in his 80s who had recently travelled to Egypt and, more than a week after arriving in Toronto, presented himself to Scarborough Health Network's General Hospital's emergency department on Thursday, Feb. 27.

Feb. 27, 2020: Quebec public health officials report the province's first presumptive case, a woman from the Montreal region who recently returned from Iran. Ontario officials also confirm a sixth case of COVID-19 in the province. They say the man in his 60s is the husband of Ontario's fifth patient with the virus.

Feb. 26, 2020: Ontario officials announce a fifth diagnosis in the province: a woman in her 60s who recently travelled to Iran.

Feb. 24, 2020: Henry announces a seventh person in B.C. has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus. The man in his 40s was in close contact with the woman who has the province's sixth case of the illness.

Feb. 23, 2020: Officials in Toronto announce Ontario has a new case of coronavirus -- the fourth to be diagnosed in the province. The woman arrived in Toronto from China several days earlier.

Feb. 21, 2020: The last known case of coronavirus in Ontario is resolved.

Feb. 20, 2020: A woman who recently returned from Iran is diagnosed with British Columbia's sixth case of COVID-19. She's the first person in the country diagnosed with the illness who did not recently visit China. Meanwhile, in Ontario, the man who had Canada's first case of the virus is cleared after testing negative for the illness twice in 24 hours.

Feb. 19, 2020: Henry announces that the person diagnosed with B.C.'s first case of the new coronavirus has recovered. It's the first time this has happened in the province.

Feb. 14, 2020: Officials in B.C. announce the province's fifth case of COVID-19. The woman in her 30s who lives in B.C.'s Interior recently returned from Hubei province.

Feb. 12, 2020: Ontario health officials say the woman from London, Ont., no longer has the novel coronavirus in her system. It marks the first time a case of the illness has been resolved in Canada.

Feb. 6, 2020: Henry announces two new cases of COVID-19 in B.C., noting both people were in the same household as the woman diagnosed with the province's second case.

Feb. 5, 2020: British Columbia's second case of coronavirus is confirmed by the National Microbiology Lab.

Feb. 4, 2020: Health officials announce another presumptive confirmed case in B.C. Henry says the woman had family visiting from China's Hubei province and she is in isolation at her home.

Jan. 31, 2020: Ontario's third case of the new coronavirus is confirmed. The patient, a woman in her 20s, had travelled to the affected area in China. The London university student initially tested negative for the virus, but a subsequent test at the national lab in Winnipeg was positive. Health officials say her symptoms are minor.

Jan. 31, 2020: Toronto man hospitalized with the novel coronavirus is well enough to go home. Sunnybrook Hospital says he'll continue to recover at home, where his wife is also in self-isolation.

Jan. 28, 2020: The presumed case of the new strain of coronavirus in B.C. is confirmed by the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.

Jan 28, 2020: Health officials in British Columbia say a man in his 40s is presumed to have the new coronavirus and is doing well as he recovers at his Vancouver home. B.C.'s health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, says the man often works in China and voluntarily isolated himself upon returning to Canada.

Jan 28, 2020: Health authorities confirm Canada's second case of the novel coronavirus. The woman had recently travelled to Wuhan with her husband, who was the first case confirmed in Canada.

Jan. 27, 2020: The National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg confirms that a man in quarantine in Sunnybrook Hospital is Canada's first documented case of the new coronavirus.

Jan. 26, 2020: The wife of the Toronto man who was Canada's first "presumptive" case of the new coronavirus becomes the second presumptive case. The woman is kept in home isolation.

Jan. 25, 2020: A man in his 50s who arrived in Toronto from Wuhan, China, the epicentre of the outbreak, becomes the first "presumptive" case of the new coronavirus in Canada. The man called 911 as soon as he got sick with relatively minor symptoms and was placed in isolation in Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital.

In this illustration provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2020 shows the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The government has made plans to release urgent funds to the research community to study the spread of the novel coronavirus outbreak.THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-CDC via AP, File